the president's pick for cia director john brennan tried to defend the strategy during the confirmation hearing. >> i think the hearing is one of the things that can be done because i think the discourse between the branches are important. i think there need to be continued speeches that are going to be given by the executive branch to explain our counterterrorism programs and we only take such actions as a last resort to save lives when there's no other alternative to taking an action that's going to mitigate that threat. >> if you want a definition of torture, here is one. it's listening to john brennan try to say as much as possible, taking as much time without actually saying anything. (laughter) that's torture. and that's what we've seen. i think the president's got a lot of explaining to do and a whole lot more than as jerry seinfeld would have said, yadda, yadda, yadda. >> and vice-president joe biden has been at the forefront of the gun control, but biden was locked and loaded for the meeting of french president hollande during the tour of europe. biden and hollande looked to be